Robert A. Kraft, Résumé

Table of Contents

• Basic Information
• Academic Credentials
• Professional Memberships
• Research and Expertise
• Other Professional Activities
• Publications

Basic Information

Robert A. Kraft, Berg Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus
Department of Religious Studies
School of Arts and Sciences
The University of Pennsylvania
201 Logan Hall
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
Phone: (215) 898-5827
Email: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

TEACHING POSITIONS

• 1959-61 Harvard University, Teaching Fellow
• 1961-63 University of Manchester, England, Asst. Lecturer
• University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Religious Studies:
      1963-68 Assistant Professor of Religious Thought
      1968-76 Associate Professor of Religious Thought
      1976-2003 Professor of Religious Studies (Berg Chair, 1992-2003)
      2003- Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies
• 1965-66 Lutheran Theol. Sem., Philadelphia, Visiting Lecturer

Academic Credentials

• B.A. (summa cum laude), Philosophy, Wheaton College (IL), 1955
• M.A., Biblical Literature: New Testament, Wheaton Graduate School (IL), 1957
• Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Religion, Christian Origins, Harvard University, 1961

Professional Memberships

• Society of Biblical Literature
• Studiorum Novi Testament Societas
• Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
• International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies
• American Society of Papyrologists
• Association for Computing in the Humanities (no longer active)
• Association for Literacy and Linguistic Computing (no longer active)

Research and Expertise

• the history and literatures of Judaism in the Greco-Roman Period, with special attention to the "Septuagint" and Old Greek (LXX/OG) translations and textual histories
• the collections called apocrypha and pseudepigrapha
• Philo of Alexandria and his world
• Josephus of Jerusalem (and Rome)
• the "Dead Sea Scrolls"
• the history and literatures of Christianity before Constantine with special attention to heterodox Christian varieties
• second century (ce) Jewish and Christian literature
• use of Jewish sources and Jewish traditions in early Christianity
• Paul and his influence
• Jesus traditions
• manuscripts and written remains from antiquity (papyrology, scrollology & codicology, paleography)
• ancient and late antique coinage (numismatics)

Other Professional Activities

• Society of Biblical Literature [SBL] 1956-
      Secretary, Mid-Atlantic Section 1965-69
      Journal of Biblical Literature New Testament Book Review Editor pro-tem. 1965/66, 1970
      Monograph Series Editor 1967-72
      Steering Committee, Pseudepigrapha Group 1969-
      Texts & Translations: Pseudepigrapha Series Editor 1973-78
      Delegate to Council for the Study of Religion 1976-78
      Computer Assisted Research Group Committee1980- (chr 84-88)
      SBL President 2006
• Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas [SNTS] 1963-
      Acting chair, Septuagint Seminar 1971
      Editorial Board 1973-76
• Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins [PSCO], co-founder and coordinator 1963-
• International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies [IOSCS], exec. committee 1969-
• IOSCS/SBL Septuagint Tools Project, co-director 1976-
• Revised Standard Version [RSV] and New Revised Standard Version [NRSV] Bible Translation Commission(s) 1972-
• American Society of Papyrologists [ASP] 1976[?]-
• Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center [ABMC] for Preservation and Research (Claremont), board of advisors 1978-
• Association for Computing in the Humanities [ACH] 19??-?
• IOUDAIOS Electronic List Advisory Board 1990-
• Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation Advisory Board 1991-
  

Bibliography Including Selections from the Larger List of
Publications in Electronic Form (which see also)

INDEX ORGANIZED BY TOPIC

PUBLICATIONS: THESES, BOOKS, ARTICLES (Chronological Order)

• Contributions of Jesus to a Modern Discussion of Inspiration. Unpublished MA Thesis, Wheaton College Graduate School, 1957
• "Barnabas' Isaiah Text and the 'Testimony Book' Hypothesis." Journal of Biblical Literature 79 (1960) 336-350 [JSTOR-SBL]
• "Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 655 Reconsidered." Harvard Theological Review 54 (1961) 253-262 [JSTOR-Cambridge]
• The Epistle of Barnabas: Its Quotations and Their Sources. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 1961. Brief summary published in Harv. Theol. Rev. 54 (1961) 300. [Electronic version in process.]
• "Barnabas' Isaiah Text and Melito's Paschal Homily." Journal of Biblical Literature 80 (1961) 371-373 [JSTOR-SBL]
• "A Note on the Oracle of Rebecca (Gen 25.23)." Journal of Theological Studies 13 (1962) 318-320
• "To Her Excellency, Theophile (Luke 1.3; Acts 1.1)." Read "by title" at regional Middle Atlantic SBL 26 April 1964
• "Some Notes on Sabbath Observance in Early Christianity." Andrews University Seminar Studies 3 (1965) 18-33
• Barnabas and the Didache = vol. 3 of The Apostolic Fathers: A New Translation and Commentary, ed. by Robert M. Grant. New York: Nelson & Sons, 1965 [English trans. republished as pp. 268-301 and 308-319 in The Apostolic Fathers, ed. J.N. Sparks. New York: Nelson, 1978]. Sections in electronic form are available also.
• "An Unnoticed Papyrus Fragment of Barnabas." Vigiliae Christianae 21 (1967) 150-163 [JSTOR-Brill]
• "Some Uncatalogued Papyri of Theological and Other Interest in the John Rylands Library" (co-authored with Ms Antonia Tripolitis). Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 51 (1968/69) 137-163
• "Jewish Greek Scriptures and Related Topics: Reports on Recent Discussions," [very autobiographical] New Testament Studies 16 (1969/70) 384-396, and 17 (1970/71) 488-490
• "Judaism on the World Scene" = pp. 81-98 in The Catacombs and the Colosseum, ed. S. Benko and J. J. O'Rourke. Valley Forge: Judson, 1971.
• L'Épître de Barnabé (Greek text with introduction by RAK; French translation and commentary by P. Prigent). Sources Chretiennes 172. Paris: Cerf, 1971.
• "The Reception of the Book" = pp. 286-316 (Appendix 2) of the English edition of W. Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity (German ed. G. Strecker, 1964), ed. by RAK and G. Krodel. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.
• "Paraleipomena Jeremiou: An English Translation" (with Ann- Elizabeth Purintun) = pp. 327-346 in Seminar Papers of the Society of Biblical Literature for 1971, vol. 2. SBL, 1971 [online Introduction, English, Greek].
• "In Search of 'Jewish Christianity' and its 'Theology': Problems of Definition and Methodology." Recherches de Sciences Religieuse 60 (Festschrift for J. Danielou on Judeo-Christianisme 1, 1972) 81-92
• The following portions of Septuagintal Lexicography, ed. RAK. Septuagint and Cognate Studies 1. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1972
  • "Section 1: Introduction" (pp. 5-7)
  • "Section 2: Introduction and Reactions" (pp. 15-19)
  • "The Eisenbeis Experiment and Proposals" (pp. 25-29)
  • "Approaches to Translation Greek Lexicography" (30-39)
  • "Section 3: Introduction and Reactions" (46-51)
  • "Notes and 'Probes' by RAK" (153-178)
    • "Eis Nikos = Permanently/Successfully: 1 Cor 15.54, Matt 12.21"
    • "Greek Renderings of Hebrew Interjections Expressing Despair/Delight, Wish/Petition, Rebuke, and the Like"
    • "Servant Terminology: Sample Entry for QERAPWN
• Paraleipomena Jeremiou, ed. RAK and A. E. Purintun. Texts and Translations 1: Pseudepigrapha Series 1. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for Society of Biblical Literature, 1972 [includes links to online Introduction, English, Greek]
• "Scholarly Publishing" = ch. 5 (pp. 45-82) in the Council for the Study of Religion Task Force on Scholarly Publication Report, ed. G. W. MacRae. Waterloo, Ontario: CSR, 1972
• Testament of Job, ed. RAK. Texts and Translations 5: Pseudepigrapha Series 3. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1974
• "A Note on Paleography and its Perils: The Date of the Old Latin MS 'ff' (=66) of the Epistle of James et al." = pp. 273-277 in Studia Codicologica (Festschrift for M. Richard), ed. F. Paschke et al. Texte und Untersuchungen 124. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1977
• "The Multiform Jewish Heritage of Early Christianity." pp. 174-199 of Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults 3 (Studies for Morton Smith), ed. J. Neusner. Leiden: Brill, 1975.
• "The Development of the Concept of 'Orthodoxy' in Early Christianity." = pp. 47-59 in Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation (Studies in Honor of M. C. Tenney), ed. G. Hawthorne. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975
• "A Sahidic Parchment Fragment of Acts 27.4-13 at the University Museum, Philadelphia (E 16690 Coptic 1)." Journal of Biblical Literature 94 (l975) 256-265 [JSTOR-SBL]
• "An Unpublished Coptic/Sahidic Psalter Codex at the University Museum in Philadelphia: a Preliminary Report." = pp. 81-89 in Biblical and Armenian Studies, ed. M. E. Stone. Jerusalem: St. James Press, 1976
• The following articles in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Supplementary Volume. Nashville: Abingdon, 1976.
  • "Apostolic Fathers" (pp. 36-38)
  • "Septuagint B. Earliest Greek Versions" (pp. 811-814)
• "Reassessing the 'Recensional Problem' in Testament of Abraham." = pp. 121-137 in Studies on the Testament of Abraham, ed. G. Nickelsburg. Septuagint and Cognate Studies 6. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1976
• "Christian Transmission of Greek Jewish Scriptures: a Methodological Probe." = pp. 207-226 in Paganisme, Judaisme, Christianisme: Influences et affrontements dans le Monde Antique (Melanges M. Simon), ed. A. Benoit et al. Paris: De Boccard, 1978
• "Philo (Josephus, Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon) on Enoch." = pp. 253-257 in Society of Biblical Literature 1978 Seminar Papers I, ed. P. J. Achtemeier. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1978
• "'Ezra' Materials in Judaism and Christianity." = pp. 119-136 in Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung II.19.1, ed. W. Haase and H. Temporini. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1979
• "P.Oxy. VI 846 (Amos 2, Old Greek) Reconsidered." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 16 (1979) 20l-204
• "Robert Franklin Evans: Scholar, Teacher and University Citizen--An Appreciation" (with V. A. Harvey). = pp. 1-29 and 187 (poem) in Disciplina Nostra: Essays in Memory of Robert F. Evans, ed. D. F. Winslow. Patristic Monograph Series 6. Cambridge, Mass.: Philadelphia Patristics Foundation, 1979
• "Philo on Seth." = pp. 457-458 in The Rediscovery of Gnosticism 2: Sethian Gnosticism, ed. B. Layton. Supplements to Numen 41. Leiden: Brill, 1981
• "Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies" (with Emanuel Tov). Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies 14 (1981) 22-40
• "In Quest of Computer Literacy." Bulletin of the Council for the Study of Religion 15.2 (April 1984) 41-45
• "OFFLINE: Computer Assisted Research for Religious Studies," Nos. 1-5 in the Bulletin of the Council for the Study of Religion 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2 (1984-85); Nos. 6-44 in Religious Studies News 1.2 (3/1986) to 9.1 (2/1994); Nos. 16-44 also in the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 17.1 (1988) to 22.2 (1994); also was published electronically on the List Server of the discussion groups Humanist, Religion, and others (see now the SBL WWW services).
• The following portions of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies I: Ruth (ed. with Emanuel Tov). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.
  • "The Project and the Volume" (with E. Tov). Pp. 1-17.
  • "Treatment of the Greek Textual Variants." Pp. 53-68. [Also in Computers in Biblical Studies, ed. V. A. Parunak. 1986.]
• "Towards Assessing the Latin Text of '5 Ezra': The Christian Connection." Pp. 158-69 in CHRISTIANS AMONG JEWS AND GENTILES: Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl on his Sixty-fifth Birthday. Ed. George W. E. Nickelsburg with George W. MacRae. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986. [JSTOR-Cambridge]
• Volume co-editor and co-contributor of the following portions of Early Judaism and its Modern Interpreters (ed. with G. W. E. Nickelsburg). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.
  • Introduction: The Modern Study of Early Judaism (with G. W. E. Nickelsburg). Pp. 1-30.
  • Appendix: Bibliographies... (with G. W. E. Nickelsburg). Pp. 480-86.
• Contributed the following short Notes in Les Actes de la 2ime Conference de l'AIBI. Bible et Informatique: methodes, outils, resultats [Jerusalem, 9-13 Juin 1988]. Geneva: Slatkine, 1989.
  • "Computer Assisted Identification and Reconstruction of Fragmentary Manuscripts (Papyri, Leather, Paper): Chester Beatty Greek Papyrus 5 (Genesis) = Rahlfs 962." Pp. 319-321.
  • "Creating and Using a CD-ROM (Laser Disk) Data Bank for Biblical and Other Textual Studies." Pp. 322-324.
• The Scriptural Citations in Origen's Homily on Jeremiah 2.21-22 (electronic publication, August 1989).
• Contributed Section on "Description of the Materials" (pp. 14-19) and Collaborated with Emanuel Tov in production of THE GREEK MINOR PROPHETS SCROLL FROM NAHAL HEVER (8HevXIIgr). Oxford: Clarendon, 1990. [Awarded Abraham Shkop Prize, Heb U.]
• Contributed the following Report (with Appendices) in Computers in Literary and Linguistic Research * Literary and Linguistic Computing 1988 (Proceedings of the 15th International Conference, Jerusalem, 5-9 June 1988), ed Yaacov Choueka. Paris - Geneva: Champion - Slatkine, 1990.
  • "Coding Dilemmas in Collecting and Reformatting Textual Materials for CD-ROM Distribution." Pp. 233-245.
• "Philo and the Sabbath Crisis: Alexandrian Jewish Politics and the Dating of Philo's Works." Pp. 131-41 in THE FUTURE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF HELMUT KOESTER. Ed. Birger A. Pearson et al. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
• "Tiberius Julius Alexander and the Crisis in Alexandria according to Josephus." Pp. 175-84 in OF SCRIBES AND SCROLLS: STUDIES ON THE HEBREW BIBLE, INTERTESTAMENTAL JUDAISM, AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS; presented to John Strugnell on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Ed. Harold W. Attridge et al. College Theological Society Resources in Religion 5; New York: University Press of America, 1991.
• Contributor to the chapter on "Biblical Studies," pp. 18-31 in THE HUMANITIES COMPUTING YEARBOOK 1989-90, ed. Ian Lancashire. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.
• "A(LI/SKW (A(LI/SKOMAI) in Greek Jewish Scriptures: Profile of a Difficult Greek Verb" (with Theodore A. Bergren), Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 74 (1992) 54-66.
• "Was There a 'Messiah-Joshua' Tradition at the Turn of the Era?" = RKMESSIA ARTICLE on the IOUDAIOS Electronic Discussion Group Listserver (10 June 1992).
• "Philo's Text of Genesis 2.18 ("I will make a helper")" [version 2.0], on the IOUDAIOS Electronic Discussion Group (10 June 1993; original version 20 May 1993).
• Enoch and Written Authorities in Testaments of the 12 Patriarchs [electronic publication, for SBL 1993 Pseudepigrapha Symposium, Washington DC]
• "The Pseudepigrapha in Christianity." Print version in TRACING THE THREADS: STUDIES IN THE VITALITY OF JEWISH PSEUDEPIGRAPHA, ed. John C. Reeves (SBL Early Judaism and its Literature 6; Atlanta: Scholars, 1994) 55-86. Updated version on ccat.sas.upenn.edu gopher (Electronic Publications: Kraft) [Originally delivered orally to the 1976 annual meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas at Duke University; subsequently released electronically on IOUDAIOS, 199?]
• "Jerome's Translation of Origen's Homily on Jeremiah 2.21-22 (Greek Homily 2; Latin 13)" (with Theodore Bergren and Benjamin Wright), Revue Be/ne/dictine 104 (1994) 260-283.
• "The Use of Computers in New Testament Textual Criticism," pp. 268-282 in The Text of the NT in Contemporary Research, ed. Bart Ehrman and Michael Holmes (Metzger Festschrift). Studies and Documents 46. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995. [See also the electronic longer draft.]
• "Scripture and Canon in Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha," pp. 199-216 in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of its Interpretation, I: From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages (Until 1300), 1: Antiquity, ed. Magne Saebo [see table of contents] . Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996. [ Expanded original form also available electronically.]
• "Philo's Treatment of the Number Seven in On Creation" for the SBL Philo Group, November 1996 (New Orleans).
• "Introductory Essay" (with Emanuel Tov) for A Concordance to the Septuagint and the Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament (Including the Apocryphal Books), second [expanded] edition. Grand Rapids MI: Baker Books, 1998. Pp. xi-xix. [an electronic draft is available].
• "The DSS and the Apostolic Fathers, with some Observations on Other Early Christian Literature apart from the NT" (with James VanderKam), for the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. 2000. [Much different from the original draft available electronically.]
• "Early Developments of the 'Two-Ways Tradition(s)' in Retrospect," pp. 136-143 in For a Later Generation (Nickelsburg Festschrift ed R.A.Argall et al.). Trinity Press International, 2000. [Expanded from the original electronic form, which remains available.]
• "The Papyri Collection at the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): an Overview," pp. 749-752 in vol. 2 of Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia (Firenze 23-29 agosto 1998), ed G.Bastianini et al. Instituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli, Firenze, 2000. [ Electronic version of 1998, with updates.]
• "32-33. Some Ptolemaic Papyri Fragments," pp. 163-167 (and pl. 19) in Papyri in Honorem Johannis Bingen Octogenarii (P. Bingen), ed Henri Melaerts. Leuven: Peeters 2000. [Expanded from electronic version of 1999; the results are included in the Inventory Catalog for the papyri collection at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.]
• "The 'Textual Mechanics' of Early Jewish LXX/OG Papyri and Fragments" ( internet publication June 1999; updated forms include and supplant the earlier materials); an abbreviated form appears in The Bible as Book: the Transmission of the Greek Text, edited by Scot McKendrick and Orlaith A. O'Sullivan (British Library & Oak Knoll Press 2003) [proceedings of a VanKampen Foundation conference, May 1998]
• "Format Features in the Earliest Jewish Greek Literary Papyri and Related Materials," one of various expansions of aspects of the preceding entry, summarized at the Papyrological Congress in Vienna (July 2001) and the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies Congress in Basel (August 2001). [Hardcopy will appear in various forms and versions.]
• "The Codex and Canon Consciousness," pp. 229-233 (item 14) in The Canon Debate, edited by Lee Martin McDonald and James A. Sanders (Peabody MA: Hendrickson 2002) [see also the expanded electronic draft].
• "Pliny on Essenes, Pliny on Jews," Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2001) [in honor of Emanuel Tov] 255-261. [JSTOR-Brill]
• [The Pseudepigrapha and Christianity, Revisited:] "Setting the Stage and Framing Some Central Questions," Journal for the Study of Judaism 32 (2001) 371-395 [see also the updated electronic version].  [originally for SNTS Colloquium, Tel Aviv, August 2000].
• (with Benjamin G. Wright) "Coptic/Sahidic Fragments of the Biblical Psalms in the University of Pennsylvania Museum," pp. 163-177 in The Old Greek Psalter: Studies in Honour of Albert Pietersma, ed . R.J.V.Hiebert, Claude E. Cox and Peter J. Gentry (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 332; Sheffield Academic Press 2001).
• "Exploring Early Jewish Greek Literary Practices," pp. 673-676 in Bible and Computer: The Stellenbosch AIBI-6 Conference. Proceedings of the Association Internationale Bible et Informatique "From Alpha to Byte"; University of Stellenbosch 17-21 July, 2000, edited by Johann Cook (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2002).
• "The Amherst Papyri Revisited: Fragments of LXX/OG MSS" in Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Prof. T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Analecta Orientalia Lovaniensia 118; Leuven: Peeters 2003).
• "Some Newly Identified LXX/OG Fragments among the Amherst Papyri at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City," pp.551-570 in EMANUEL: Studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls in honor of Emanuel Tov, edited by Shalom M. Paul, Robert A. Kraft, Lawrence H. Schiffman and Weston W. Fields, with the assistance of Eva Ben-David (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2003).
• "The Weighing of the Parts: Pivots and Pitfalls in the Study of Early Judaisms and their Early Christian Offspring," pp. 87-94 in The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, edited by Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 95; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003).
• "How I Met the Computer, and How it Changed my Life," SBL Forum Spring 2004.
• "Reviving (and Refurbishing) the Lost Apocrypha of M. R. James," pp. 37-51 in Things Revealed: Studies in Early Jewish and Christian Literature in Honor of Michael E. Stone, ed. Esther G. Chazon, David Satran and Ruth A. Clemens (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 89; Brill 2004) [Also an electronic version, and an overview of the project].
• "Daniel Outside the Traditional Jewish Canon: In the Footsteps of M. R. James," pp. 121-133 in Studies in the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, and the Septuagint: Essays Presented to Eugene Ulrich on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Emanuel Tov, James VanderKam and Peter Flint (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 101; Brill 2006). [Also an electronic version.]
• "Reassessing the Impact of Barthelemy's Devanciers, Forty Years Later," in Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies [submitted March 2005] 
• "Philo's Bible Revisited: the ‘Aberrant Texts’ and their Quotations of Moses," pp. 237-253 in Interpreting Translation: Studies on the LXX and Ezekiel in Honour of Johan Lust, ed F. Garcia Martinez and M. Vervenne with the collaboration of B. Doyle (Peeters 2005) [also an expanded version with working notes appended].
• "Robert W. Funk and the SBL," Society of Biblical Literature Forum, October 2005.
• "Para-Mania: Beside, Before, and Beyond Bible Studies" (SBL Presidential Address, 18 Nov 2006), Journal of Biblical Literature 126 (2007) 5-27 [ full electronic version with linked images].
• "Pursuing the Para-Scriptural by way of the Pre-Scriptural" [delivered to a University of Toronto Seminar, 11 April 2007]
• "The Birth [Gestation] of the Canon: from Scriptures to 'THE Scripture' in early Judaism and early Christianity" [delivered at University of Toronto, 12 April 2007; includes some subsequent updates]
• "Pursuing Papyri and Papyrology by Way of eBay: A Preliminary Report" given to the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, 3 August 2007, Ann Arbor MI [a frames version also is available for integrated viewing].
• "In Search of Jewish Greek Scriptures: Exposing the Obvious?" prepared for the Toronto conference on "Editorial Problems" (1-4 November 2007); also presented at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in Philadelphia (10de2007).
• "Scroll, Codex, and Canons: the Relationship of Ancient Book Formats to Larger Collections and Anthologies (with Special Reference to Jewish and Christian Scriptures)" (21 February 2008 Classical Studies and Ancient History colloquium, University of Pennsylvania)
• "PPennMuseum Pictures and Designs on Papyrus, Paper, and Vellum," prepared (with Ann Kuttner) for the Papyrology course at UPenn, 2009.
  
• Exploring the Scripturesque: Jewish Texts and their Christian Contexts. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 137. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2009.  A collection of essays, with some updating and some pieces previously available only electronically:
• Frontmatter
  
• 00. Introduction [new]
  
• 01. The Pseudepigrapha in Christianity [1994 (1976)]
  
• 02. The Pseudepigrapha and Christianity Revisited [2000]
  
• 03. Christian Transmission [1978]
  
• 04. The Weighing of the Parts [2003]
  
• 05. Combined Review -- Charlesworth and Sparks [1987, 1988]
  
• 06. Recensional Problem [1976]
  
• 07. Ezra [1979]
  
• 08. Latin Text of 5 Ezra [1986]
  
• 09. Enoch in Testaments of the 12 Patriarchs [1993]
  
• 10. The Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila and its Echoes of Judaism [new configuration]
  
• 11. Pliny on Essenes [2001]
  
• 12a-b. Philo on Seth [1978] and Enoch [1978]
  
• 13. Philo on 7 [1996]
  
• 14. Philo and the Sabbath Crisis [1991]
  
• 15 TJA and the Crisis [1990]
  
• ++. Review and Prospects [new]
  
• ++. Comprehensive Index [new]
• "What is “Bible”? – from the Perspective of “Text”: the Christian Connections" (for the "What is Bible?" conference in Landau, Germany, on 31 May 2010); published as pp. 105-112 of What is Bible?, edited by Karin Finsterbusch and Armin Lange.(Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 67; Leuven: Peeters 2012). see also the followup report on this theme for the SBL Annual Meeting in November 2010 in Atlanta.
• "Automating Paleography: the Penn Museum Papyri Collection," for the Brown Technology Conference, 13-14 February 2012
• with AnneMarie Luijendijk, "Christianity's Rise After Judaism's Demise in Early Egypt," pp. 179-185 in Partings: How Judaism and Christianity Became Two, edited by Hershel Shanks (Washington DC: Biblical Archaeology Society 2013).
• "Seeking 'The Septuagint' in a Scroll Dependent World," pp. 573-582 of In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes: Studies in the Biblical Text in Honour of Anneli Aejmelaeus, ed. Kristin De Trooyer, T. Michael Law, and Marketta Liljeström (Peeters 2014).
• "What did Constantine Want from Eusebius? The 50 Booklets of Sacred Scriptures Badly/Sadly Misunderstood"
• "To the Most Honorable Lady, Theophile (Luke 1.3, Acts 1.1)"
• Matter Festschrift Materials on 666 = Mark of the Beast in Rev 13.17 [plus notes]
• Jewish Latin article
• T 12 Ps art.
• "Let the Living Remember the Dead: Homage to the Departed Pioneers of the Pseudepigrapha Group -- Father George W. MacRae, S. J.," pp. 53-58 of The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Fifty Years of the Pseudepigrapha Section at the SBL, ed. Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied (Atlanta: SBL Press 2019)

• P.Prigent, LE TESTIMONIA DANS LE CHRISTIANISME PRIMITIF: L'EPITRE DE BARNABE I-XVI ET SES SOURCES (1961). Journal of Theological Studies 13 (1962) 401-408 [JSTOR-SBL]
• K.Beyer, SEMITISCHE SYNTAX IN NEUEN TESTAMENT I:1 (1962). Gnomon 35(1963) 677-680
• J. Smit Sibinga, THE OLD TESTAMENT TEXT OF JUSTIN MARTYR I: THE PENTATEUCH (1963). Gnomon 36 (l964) 572-577
• D. Barthelemy, LES DEVANCIERS D'AQUILA (1963). Gnomon 37 (1965) 474-482
• BIBLIA SACRA IUXTA LATINAM VULGATAM VERSIONEM . . . 12. SAPIENTIA SALOMONIS, LIBER HIESU FILII SIRACH (1964). Gnomon 37 (1965) 777-781 [JSTOR-SBL]
• S.Jellicoe, THE SEPTUAGINT AND MODERN STUDY (1970). Jewish Quarterly Review 61 (1970) 167-171 [JSTOR-Penn]
• J. M. Robinson (ed.), THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY IN ENGLISH(1977). Religious Studies Review 8.1 (January 1982) 32-52 [with Janet Timbie]
• Jewish and Christian Self-Definition. Volume One: The Shaping of Christianity in the Second and Third Centuries. Edited by E. P. Sanders. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.
• J. H. Charlesworth (ed.), THE OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA (2 vol., 1983-85), and H. F. D. Sparks (ed.) THE APOCRYPHAL OLD TESTAMENT (1984). Religious Studies Review 14.2 (April 1988) 113-117. [See also Review of Charlesworth in JBL (1987) 736-39. JSTOR-SBL]
• E. P. Sanders, PAUL (1991). On the Electronic IOUD-REV Journal for 13 September 1993.
• Armin Lange, Computer Aided Text-Reconstruction and Transcription: CATT-MANUAL. Tuebingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 1993). On IOUD-REV.
• (co-editor with Beth Pollard, and contributor) Martin Goodman (ed.), Jews in a Graeco-Roman World.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1998 (actually spring 1999).  Pp. x, 293. ISBN 0-19-815078-4.On Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.08.10 (8 Aug 2005).
• The Collected Biblical Writings of T. C. Skeat, edited by J. Keith Elliott (Brill 2004). Pp. xxxiv + 298. On Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2005); also on Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2008)
  
• Rex Winsbury, The Roman Book: Books, Publishing and Performance in Classical Rome. Classical Literature and Society.   London:  Duckworth, 2009.  Pp. xii, 236.  ISBN 9780715638293. [On Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.03.21]
  
• Roger S. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt.   Princeton/Oxford:  Princeton University Press, 2009.  Pp. xv, 100.  ISBN 9780691140261. Delivered Orally at 2010 SBL Annual Meetings.
  
• Tessa Rajak, Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 380. Delivered Orally at 2010 SBL Annual Meetings.
  
• James K. Aitken and James Carleton Paget. The Jewish-Greek tradition in antiquity and the Byzantine Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xxii, 359 p.. ISBN 9781107001633.[Nicholas deLange volume]

• [numerous, in various journals] [see also JSTOR index]

• M. Metzer, "Introduction to Preaching: the Route from Exegesis to Proclamation." Journal for Theology and Church 2, ed. J. M. Robinson and R. W. Funk. New York: Harper, 1965
• H. Riesenfeld, "Paul's 'Grain of Wheat' Analogy and the Argument of I Corinthians 15." = pp. 171-186 in The Gospel Tradition. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1970
• W. Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity (co-ed. with G. Krodel). Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971 [partial PDF here; HTML in Google books]
• M. L. Margolis, "Specimen Article . . . ." = pp. 53-59 in Septuagintal Lexicography, ed. RAK. SCS l. Missoula, Mont.: Society of Biblical Literature, 1972
• K. Treu, "The Significance of Greek for Jews in the Roman Empire" (with William Adler) = KTREU ARTICLE on the Listserver of the IOUDAIOS Electronic Seminar, 14 August 1991 (an earlier electronic version).

SEMI-POPULAR PRESENTATIONS, Gwynedd Estates Retirement Community and elsewhere

• [17mr2008, Doylestown Presbyterian Church] Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS)
• [12se2012, Gwynedd] The Dead Sea Scrolls and Me
• [19se2012, Gwynedd] Archaeology and Ancient Israel
• [26se2012, Gwynedd] Visit to the Franklin Institute Exhibit on the DSS
• [03oc2012, Gwynedd] Discussion & Wrap-up on the DSS
• [2013]
• [2014]
• [2015]
• [2016] Travel Club 28sept: "Catalonian Capers 2016: Barcelona, Tarragona, Empuries, Ullstret"
• [13mr2018, UCal Davis] The 666 Mark of Identity in Greek Christianity
• [2019no06] A Fussy Historian Looks at the Dead Sea Scrolls
• "Fussings Column One" in the Gwynedd Estates Paper, Gwynedd Times December 2019, p. 17
• [2020ja29] A Fussy Historian Looks at the Name "Jesus" -- also at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church Adult Group, 18fe2020
• "Fussings Column Two" Gwynedd Times February 2020, p.14
• [2020mr11] A Fussy Historian Looks at the "Apostolic Fathers"
• "Fussings Column Three" Gwynedd Times ...

PUBLICATIONS: EDITOR (with no specific contribution to content)

• Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series 14-19. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1967-73, and Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press for Society of Biblical Literature, 1974
• International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies: 1972 Proceedings. SCS 2. Missoula, Mont.: Society of Biblical Literature, 1972
• Texts and Translations: Pseudepigrapha Series 1-8. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for Society of Biblical Literature, 1972-78
• CCAT Portion of PHI/CCAT CD-ROM. Los Altos: Packard Humanities Institute, 1987. Directly responsible also for production of the following electronic items:
  • 1.05 (with N. Hubler) Selected Coptic Biblical Books
  • 1.09.1 (with D. Brueggemann) Apocrypha of the Authorized Version
  • 1.10 (with W. Newby) Paraleipomena Jeremiah (Greek & English)
  • 1.11 Pseudo-Paul, "3 Corinthians"
  • 2.01 (with CATSS staff) Morphologically Analyzed "LXX"
  • 2.02.3 (with T. Bergren) "5 Ezra"
  • 2.03.1 (with B. Wright) Variants to the Book of Ruth
  • 3.03.3 (with T. Bergren & B. Wright) Origen on Jer 2.21f
  • 4.03 (with D. Brueggemann) Latin Word List of Legitimate Forms
  • 7.02 The 1880 Diary of Mary Ann Pierpont
  • 7.03 English Word List of Legitimate Forms

[Pending Publications and Topics to Pursue (October 2016)]

     Scroll/Codex: Do depictions of Luke favor some form of scroll (rotulus) as his Gospel medium?

     Latin Jewish Scriptures: Were there Jewish translations of "scriptural" books into Latin ("Old Latin" selections)

DEGREES SUPERVISED (or Significantly Involved)

Hotchkiss, Robert V.: MA 05/1973
Arguments for the Dating of Jubilees

Dechow, Jon F.: PhD 08/1975
Dogma and Mysticism in Early Christianity: Epiphanius of Cyprus and the Legacy of Origen

Magalis, Elaine: MA 05/1975
[Title ? ]

Koch, Glenn: PhD 08/1976
[Epiphanius on the Ebionites (Panarion 30)]

Purintun. Ann-Elizabeth: MA 12/1979
A Critical Edition of the Greek Text of Paraleipomena Jeremiou

Timbie, Janet: PhD 05/1979
Dualism and the Concept of Orthodoxy in the Thought of the Monks of Upper Egypt

Himmelfarb, Martha: PhD 05/1981
Tours of Hell: The Development and Transmission of an Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature
  

McKenna, Margaret: PhD 05/1981
The Two Ways in Jewish and Christian Writings of the Greco-Roman Period: A Study of Form and Function

Remus, Harold: PhD 05/1981
Pagan-Christian Conflict Over Miracle in the Second Century

Adler, William: PhD 08/1982
George Syncellus and his Predecessors: Anti-Diluvian History in the Chronical of Syncellus and his Acknowledged Authorities

Salmon, Dena K.: MA 08/1984
Translation and Commentary on Sifre Deuteronomy (DT 11-12)

Bergren, Theodore: PhD 12/1988
A Textual Investigation of 5 Ezra (4 Ezra 1-2)

Wright, Benjamin G. III: PhD 05/1988
New Perspective on Biblical Vocabulary and Translation Techniques: Sirach and Its Presumed Hebrew Vorlage
  

Heschel, Susannah: PhD 05/1989
Abraham Geiger and the Origins of Christianity

LiDonnici, Lynn R.: PhD 05/1989
Tale and Dream: The Text and Compositional History of the Corpus of Epidaurian Miracle Lures

(O'Connor, Kathleen M.: PhD 05/1994 [Advisors: Sells & Matter]
The Alchemical Creation of Life (Takwin) and Other Concepts of Genesis in Medieval Islam)
  

Pastis, Jacqueline: PhD 05/1995
Representations of Jews and Judaism in the Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila: Construct or Social Reality?

Cohick, Lynn: MA 05/95, PhD 12/1996
[MA: The Tetragrammaton and its Various Renderings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity]
Reassessing the Use of Scriptural Material and Interpretation in the PERI PASXA Attributed to Melito of Sardis

Nilsson, Donal: PhD 05/1996
Studies of the New Testament Traditions in the Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila

Treat, Jay: PhD 05/1996
Lost Keys Text and Interpretation in Old Greek Song of Songs and Its Earliest Manuscript Witnesses
 

(Knobloch, Frederick (Fritz) [PhD AMES, Jeffrey Tigay])

Kerkeslager, Allen: PhD 12/1997
Jewish Pilgrimage and Jewish Identity in Hellenistic and Early Roman Egypt

Grossman, Maxine: [with Ross Kraemer] PhD 05/2000
Reading the History of the Righteous Remnant: Ideology and Constructions of Identity in the Damascus Document

Sandmel, David Fox: [with Ross Kraemer, Samuel Klausner, Israel Bartal] PhD 05/2002
Into the Fray: Joseph Klausner on Early Judaism and Early Christianity

(Pollard, Elizabeth Lisi: [Ancient History, Brent Shaw, also with Ross Kraemer] PhD 2002
Magic Accusations Against Women in the Greco-Roman World From the First Through the Fifth Centuries C.E.)

Lander, Shira: [with Ross Kraemer, Brent Shaw] PhD 12/2002
Women and the Cult of the Martyrs in North Africa in the Fourth and Fifth centuries

Marks, Susan: [with Ross Kraemer, David Stern] PhD 05/2003
Jewish Marriage in the Greco-Roman Period: A Reconsideration of Received Ritual
  

Blankenship, James [with Vasiliki Lamberis] PhD 2004
Subject to the Governing Authorities: A Tradition of Pauline Interpretation in Late Antiquity

(Anisfeld, Rachel [AMES, David Stern] PhD 2004
Preacher and Audience: Exploring the Rhetorical Nature of the Homiletical Midradhim Pesikta deRav Kahana and Leviticus Rabbah)

Gruen, William C. [Chip] PhD 2005
Religious and Ethnic Violence in the Imperial southeast Mediterranean

Schwarz, Sarah PhD 2005
Building a Book of Spells: Textual Development and Social History in the Testament of Solomon

Peterson, Sigrid PhD 2006
Martha Shamuni: a Jewish Syriac Liturgical Text of the Maccabean Martyrdoms

(Luke, Trevor [Ancient History, with Brent Shaw, Jeremy McInerney, Campbell Grey] PhD 2007
Presence, Prophecy, and Power in the Early Roman Empire)

Kirkegaard, Bradford PhD 2007
Christian Claiming and Reuse of Greco-Roman Sacred Space in the 4th and 5th Centuries

Humm, Alan PhD 2008
The Decline of Prophecy in Second and Early Third Century Christianity

Bucher, Debra PhD 2008
Ascetic Cohabitation and Authoritative Scriptures in the Epistula Titi Discipuli Pauli

Tolley, Harry PhD 2010
Ariston of Pella
 
Finkbeiner, Douglas PhD 2010
Josephus on Essenes

Kelly, Caroline (Ancient History) PhD 2010
Hadrian and Religion

(Beardsley, Steven J. [Temple University, with Vasilike Limberis] PhD 2012

Luke’s Narrative Agenda: The Use of KURIOS within Luke- Acts to Proclaim the Identity of Jesus)

Virginia Wayland PhD 2017

"Following Moses: An Inquiry into the Prophetic Discourse of the First Century C.E."

Taylor, Stephen [unfinished]
Paul and the Persian Sage: the Legacy of Paul's Understanding of the Law in the Demonstrations of Aphrahat

Banner, Kenneth [unfinished]
Testament of Job

Wellman, Tennyson J. [with Peter Struck] [unfinished]
Orphic Religion

Last thoroughly modified, 30 September 2016 [being updated 22mr2020]
Robert A. Kraft, kraft [at] sas.upenn.edu